Admiral_69 78 Posted January 9, 2014 Hello, I am completely new to DayZ (mod or standalone). I started playing on Jan 4th, and I think this game is AWESOME. I have already logged 19 hours. Since this is an alpha, I thought I would share my thoughts on the game. Thankfully I waited a couple of days to post this, as I was kind of a whiny-pants at first. Please let me know what you think of the below items. Do you have any thoughts to share? · Why can’t I chamber a single round into weapons with a magazine? · Why do all the weapons come without magazines? Shouldn’t it just be a poor condition magazine (causing high likelihood of jamming) · Thank you for not spawning zeds in buildings. I am terrified of the day that happens. · Speaking of spawning zeds, please do not make them “respawn”. I like that dead zeds stay dead. You could replenish areas using migrating behaviour (e.g. only spawn at the edges of the map and migrate either randomly or towards sound, etc) · I am really hopeful that the zeds gain grouping into hordes. That would be AWESOME! · The effect of equipment status is completely unclear. Do small items drop out of a ruined / badly damaged backpack? Do damaged shoes increase the risk of a broken leg? · The broken leg mechanics are extremely annoying, yet realistic. However, I had no idea my leg was broken (I think it broken when I got to the bottom of the ladder in the big building in Elektro, but it may have been because I was sick. Either way, I had no idea why I couldnt stand up). So I crawled around for about an hour searching for medical supplies, and was able to cure my sick status. I still couldn’t walk. I gave up and switched servers to look for more medical supplies… and suddenly I could walk & run again. Was this a feature or a bug? · The loot system encourages server hopping. After searching for a Mosin for 12 hours across many locations, I finally found one by hopping through 4-5 servers at a known spawn location. I view this as “search the area again to discover new items with a time lapse”, but that is still silly. · Speaking of silly, the complete lack of any map for the island for fresh spawns is a poorly thought out game mechanic. All this does is encourage metagame actions like loading the map on your tablet / second monitor as opposed to exploring the island naturally. I have no doubt I would have resorted to this strategy eventually, but I switched to it after my first character followed a road for a couple hours and died of thirst/starvation. · Zombie Predator Vision. Those things can spot you from huge distances away, and blend wonderfully into the background since they don’t move and are grey on grey. The only thing they are missing is a shoulder mounted plasma cannon. I hated this before I found proper weapons, now it doesn't really scare me. I love that. · Crawling on the ground sucks. It is nearly impossible to crawl through doors, and you cant crawl up stairs. (If this happens to you, try standing up while crawling. You will sometimes dive through the door / stairs) · Darkness. This is awesome and realistic. Whenever I encounter it, I change to a different server to simulate “sleeping”, much like my other server hopping justification. I look forward to the day that flashlights are not a direct conical laser beam of light, and actually diffuse through the room / have a wider or adjustable arc. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantasm (DayZ) 57 Posted January 9, 2014 A number of your concerns have already been posted about by Rocket. Consider looking up his user name on Reddit (rocket2guns) and perusing his comments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
resin_ 97 Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Refreshing to see someone new to DayZ enjoying the alpha and not complaining on the forums! Good luck out there! Most of your ideas/feedback have to do with scripting, which is most of the Arma engine (and is an ongoing process). Be patient, things will be fixed/added in time! Edited January 9, 2014 by Resin_ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redwolf (DayZ) 125 Posted January 9, 2014 Thankfully I waited a couple of days to post this, as I was kind of a whiny-pants at first. This!You may have my beans, fine sir! :beans:And welcome to the forums! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
